Padma Lakshmis daughter receives $1.8bn from moms boyfriend

Los Angeles, Feb 27 -- Teddy Forstmann, the late boyfriend of 'Top Chef' host Padma Lakshmi, has leftan estimated $1.8 billion for the Indian-American actress daughter Krishna though he was not thebiological father of the child.Before his death last November due to cancer, Forstmann (71) was dating Lakshmi (41), who was thenpregnant with her first child by Adam Dell, the brother of Dell Computers founder Michael.According to the report published in Hollywood Life, despite not being the father of the two-year-old,Forstmann carried out the role of a father since the child was born and Lakshmi also wished him to bethe biological of her daughter instead of Adam.Lakshmi is ex-wife of Indian-origin novelist Salman Rushdie.